I use homebrew as a package manager for certain web development app. To keep brew up-to-date I run "update brew" every couple of days and also run "brew doctor." Usually, this is fine and brew tells ...

I have wine 1.6.2 installed currently through brew running Yosemite 10.10.2. I would like to simultaneously have an older version of wine on my machine to run a program that does not work with newer ...

I accidentally executed rm * on / and since then I am unable to see my desktop. All I see is a blue screen with spinning gear.
Irony is I somehow missed my OS and other CDs too that came with my Mac. ...

I would like to use Homebrew to install some stuff,
In the mean time, I have already installed my local gcc, and I want Homebrew to use this specific one (this gcc at /usr/local/bin/gcc is frequently ...

I'm using brew. I have node installed, using brew. I want to use an earlier version of node.
Online, I find instructions such as, for example:
cd /usr/local/Library/Formula
brew remove node --force
...

I'm trying to create a Homebrew cask formula for xcas, the thing is the packaging method of this software is overly complicated, a .pkg inside a .dmg inside a .gz. I've looked at other formula that ...

I'm a new mac user and I'm going to start using Homebrew to build my environment. My current environment I've installed piece by piece. What I want to check is what to make sure I do, so I don't get ...

I wanted to download python on my Mac OS Mavericks. I found a blog which instructed to download it via home-brew using simple command
brew install python
But I am getting failed to download errors. ...

How do I drag and drop files to ported applications that are managed by the XServer?
For instance, I want to drag images to Inkscape or csv files to Gnumeric, which I both installed via Homebrew and ...

I 've installed mysql server with brew, and i need to run manually this command each time my computer start to make it work with an application that I can't edit.
sudo mkdir -p -- /var/run/mysqld/ ; ...

When I open my terminal I see the following message
Last login: Thu Dec 18 22:00:53 on ttys000
Error: No available formula for php5
I have tried to run brew doctor but the error remains. I am using ...

I have a iMac and Macbook for work and another set for home. I end up getting a new one every couple of years so I end up re-setting up everything atleast couple of times a year. So I wrote a script ...

I just install XAMPP5.6.3-0 and Movable Type 6.0.5 on my OS X 10.8.5 sysytem. I also used Homebrew 0.9.5 to install Imagemagik. When I check on Movable Types's installed modules section the it shows ...

I'm using homebrew and have a lot of libraries in /usr/local/lib as well as include files in /usr/local/include. What is the easiest way to make sure that clang and ld in all circumstances will look ...